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[ti-amie]

I have to check and see if they've found "George Santos". As of yesterday no one knew where he lived.

[ti-amie]

Are the Dems finally playing hardball with people like her?

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Reports are "George Santos" lives in Florida.

Jon Cooper @joncoopertweets
GET THIS! It turns out the NY Congressman-elect is a FLORIDA resident!

So far off the top of my head only Hawley made it through and was seated. He lives in Virginia or Massachusetts I think. Oz and Walker didn't make it. Let's see what happens with "George Santos".

[ti-amie]

New York's alleged GOP fraudster congressman reportedly a registered Florida resident
Story by David Badash, The New Civil Rights Movem

George Santos, the Republican congressman-elect for a House seat based in Long Island and Queens, New York, was seemingly exposed as a fraudster by The New York Times on Monday, but even more questions are now arising after he appears to have filed paperwork on Tuesday stating his place of residence is in Florida.

That’s according to two investigative articles from Talking Points Memo.

On Tuesday evening TPM reported that in May of 2021 Santos registered his company, Devolder Organization LLC, which has no website and it’s unclear what the operation actually does, in Florida.

“On his congressional disclosure form he reported $750,000 in income from the company and between $1 million and $5 million in dividends,” TPM adds. “This compares with $55,000 in income he reported two years earlier from a different employer when he ran for the same seat in 2020. But the company was dissolved in September 2022, the same month as the disclosure form was filed, because the company never filed an annual report.”

One day after The New York Times bombshell that appears to show Santos’ claims about where he worked, lived, and went to college are false, the incoming GOP lawmaker “filed documents to have his company reinstated” in Florida.

Just before midnight, the sleuths at TPM added yet another bombshell to the Santos story.

When Santos filled those documents “he listed himself as the registered agent.”

TPM calls that “significant,” and explains why.

“A corporation operating in a jurisdiction needs a registered agent so people and courts will have someone to go to deliver summons, warrants, court filings, all manner of official stuff. You can either use a service that does this for a fee or you can list an individual. Under Florida law that individual must be a resident of Florida. So when Santos filed this form today he attested that he is in fact a resident of the state of Florida.”


https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics ... r-AA15xdUY

[ponchi101]

That's it.
I will find ONE county in the USA that has no representatives. I will run for Congress, claiming I LIVE THERE. And then, it will make no difference that I am not even American,
My green card awaits!

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[Owendonovan]

I've never heard the term "dead to rights". Now, I understand it basically means red-handed.

[ti-amie]

Here's the article from the local paper that is owned, ironically, by a MAGAt

The Leader Told You So: US Rep-Elect George Santos is a Fraud - and Wanted Criminal

By Niall Fitzgerald

In a story first broken by the North Shore Leader over four months ago, the national media has suddenly discovered that US Congressman-elect George Santos (R-Queens / Nassau) - dubbed "George Scam-tos" by many local political observers - is a deepfake liar who has falsified his background, assets, and contacts. He is fact a wanted petty criminal in Brazil.

The New York Times published a lengthy expose on Santos this week detailing that virtually everything Santos has said, filed and published about himself is a lie.

Santos claims to be a "wealthy man" in corporate finance, who owns mansions in Oyster Bay and the Hamptons; was a graduate of Baruch College and attended New York University; lost four co-workers in the 2016 mass shooting at the Pulse gay nightclub massacre; has millions in cash assets - and even spoke at local Synagogues claiming he is Jewish. All lies.

Instead, Santos is a really just a petty criminal from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He is currently wanted in Brazil on criminal charges of committing elder fraud and check forgery. He stole checkbooks from the elderly patients of his late mother - who was a home healthcare nurse - and forged the checks to steal merchandise, according to prosecutors in Brazil.

Santos owns no real estate according to the New York Times - and the Leader's earlier reporting. He claimed to own "a mansion" on Tiffany Lane in Oyster Bay Cove, and "a mansion" on Dune Road in the Hamptons. All lies.

Santos never graduated from Baruch College or NYU. Neither school has any record of him, according to the Times. He is a high school drop-out, who earned a High School equivalency diploma.

He claims to have worked for Goldman Sachs and Citigroup - neither firm has any record of him.

None of the victims of the Pulse mass shooting had any connection to Santos.

And Santos' mother - who passed away in 2016 - and whom Santos claimed was "Jewish" - was instead a devout Catholic named "Fatima" - named by her allegedly "Jewish" parents after a Catholic pilgrimage site in Portugal. Santos shed tears at local synagogues describing how his family "escaped the Holocaust."

Even more serious are the huge financial claims made by Santos in his Federal Election filings and Personal Disclosures filed with the US government. Many of the reports - including an alleged "$600,000 loan" from Santos to his campaign - appear to be fake.

As do huge "disbursements" to Washington DC "consulting firms" that experienced Washington DC professionals say they have never heard of.

"Santos declared his net worth in 2020 to be 'less than $5,000,' but then made a $600,000 loan just a few months later - and now in 2022 he claims he's worth $11 million... it doesn't add up," stated one Long Island political operative.

Lying on federal financial disclosures is a federal criminal felony, with each violation facing up to five (5) years in federal prison.

According to the NYC Courts, Santos was evicted twice in the past five years from rented apartments in Queens - for non-payment of rent.

He claims to now live in a rented apartment in a row house in Queens, however the Times reports that no one knows him at that address.

More disturbing are the connections that Santos does have. A recent report in the Daily Beast, Santos took some $56,000 from a Russian money man named Andrew Intrater - a cousin of Putin crony Viktor Vekselberg, who is under international sanctions.

After receiving the Russian money, Santos attacked Ukraine, claiming the government of Ukrainian President Zelensky was "fascist" and "totalitarian" and implicitly supporting the invasion by Russia. Under criticism, Santos later backtracked and then claimed he was actually "Jewish" and "Ukrainian."

The Leader has previously described Santos as "a Fabulist - a Fake..." who makes "fantasy claims and lies to everyone."

Local political observers have characterized Santos as being like the pathologically-lying con-artist protagonists from the films "Six Degrees of Separation" starring Will Smith, or "The Talented Mr. Ripley" starring Matt Damon. He fools gullible wealthy people into giving him money - and has now conned himself into the US Congress.

Santos will be sworn-in on January 1st, as the new Congressman for New York's 3rd congressional district, which consists of the Towns of Oyster Bay and North Hempstead, and a small portion of northeast Queens.

https://www.theleaderonline.com/single- ... d-criminal

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[Owendonovan]

I wonder if Santos is actually a US citizen or gay.

[ponchi101]

Regardless of where this will end, there has to be some new methods to verify that a candidate is who s/he says s/he is.
Between this guy, and Hershel not even living in Georgia, and Dr Oz not living wherever he was running for, the GOP systematically lies about what they are. Some sort of checks should be in place.

[Owendonovan]

Regardless of where this will end, there has to be some new methods to verify that a candidate is who s/he says s/he is.
Between this guy, and Hershel not even living in Georgia, and Dr Oz not living wherever he was running for, the GOP systematically lies about what they are. Some sort of checks should be in place.

It's kind of in line with how TFG said, "I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody, and I wouldn't lose any voters, OK? It's, like, incredible." Sadly, it is incredible that that seems to be the mentality of the current GOP.

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[dryrunguy]

If someone did this to dogs or cats, there would be fairly universal agreement that this was cruel and inhumane. What moral compass rates migrants below pets? The organizers should be prosecuted for this.

[Owendonovan]

If someone did this to dogs or cats, there would be fairly universal agreement that this was cruel and inhumane. What moral compass rates migrants below pets? The organizers should be prosecuted for this.

I don't understand how this is legal in any kind of weather, let alone weather you can die in fairly quickly.